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PARK CITY, Utah — The stars have gone home. Or, that's what they tell me. It's the sixth day of 2011's 11-day Sundance Film Festival, and the preening, posing, promoting magazine faces have returned to the Los Angeles smog to troll for their next scripts. Those of us remaining just want to see some movies. But then I'm walking up quaint and sloping Main Street, colored lights strung above and a dusting of snow on the roofs, when I spy a man with salt-and-pepper hair being interviewed by a television crew. Onlookers start snapping photos. You know, just in case. "Who is that?" someone asks. I shrug. "Is it someone famous?" someone else asks....

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